Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Greetings all! With apologies to my regular readers, my day job as a PhD student working on a dissertation and teaching college classes has been consuming a lot of my time lately. In an effort to bring you all more regular updates of the healthy delicious food you've come to expect, I've invited my friend Lynn to contribute to Skinny Gourmet. When we agreed to collaborate on a few foodie projects for the blog, Lynn asked what her name was. I told her to pick her own super-hero identity. So I proudly introduce to you the first installment from Butter Vixen, and her hubby, Sugar Daddy.

Global financial meltdown? Environmental crisis? A husband who needs to lose weight? New high vegetable, lots of whole grain, low meat dietary requirements? What is a Butter Vixen to do? Rise to the cooking challenge! The game: make one full week of breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for under $100, with the highest nutritional value and the least produced garbage possible. We’ll start every week with one cooked chicken – autumnally tasty, traditionally comforting, nutritionally (and economically) sound. Over the week, the pieces transform into something new for supper at night, though leftovers rule for lunches.

I used a combination of for-the-week foods, and pantry staples. Overall, I spent about $46 on new things, and about $30 to go into the pantry. And to start the week off right, we begin with a latin-inspired roast chicken with a flavor-packed citrus sauce. Rice and beans round out this healthy, delicious and inexpensive meal.